Picture-mount.



- H. D. STERRIOK.

PICTURE MOUNT. APPLICATION FILED DBO.14,1906.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

HARRISON D. STE ERICK, OF P ITTSBIIRG, PENNSYLVANIA.

PICTURE-MOUNT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

Application filed December 14, 1906. SerialiNo. 347,766.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON D. 'STER- RICK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Pittsburg, inthe State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Mounts, of whichthe 7 following is a specification.

My invention relates to picture glasses,

and its primary object is to provide a combined glass and mount for thepicture which will give a medallion appearance to a paper picturemounted thereon.

Other objects are to provide a glass which will serve as an ornamentalframe and as a mount for the picture, and to provide means for giving aflat picture the appearance of a raised medallion, by means of a lensand its effect on the light reflected from the picture.

The accompanying drawing shows several preferred forms of the device,Figure 1 being a front view and Fig. 2 a central vertical section of apreferred form. Figs. 3, 4 and 6 are similar sections of modified formsof the mount, and Fig. 5 shows a back view of an alternate form for themounting surface of the picture. Figs. 7 and 8 are details of partialsections showing the surface of the glass surrounding the picturesupporting surface,

It'will be recognized that it is difficult, if not impossible, to pastea picture such as a photograph on a curved surface, and also that araised or medallion appearance cannot be given to the picture withouteither pasting 1t on a curved surface or using a lens in immediatecontact with the picture.

Picture frames have heretofore been made with oval shaped glasses not incontact with the picture, but the medallion effect is not good becausethe light reflected from the picture is not 'refractedin the properdirection nor at the proper time.

In my deviceI providea transparent plate 9 made preferably of glasswhich will serve at once as an ornamental frame for the picture, a lens,and as a mount for pasting the picture immediately thereon. It is madegenerally flat behind with a flat face 10 (Fig. 2) for pasting aprotecting cover 11, and the front of the glass is made in a generalspherical form so as to provide a lens. The surface 10 is usuallyenameled, as in Fig. 5. On the back of the plate 9 is a countersunk flatport on 12 which is surzaunded by a curved surface 13 separated by asharp edge and, which may be either plain as shown in Fig. 2 orornamented with beads or striations as shown in Figs.,7 and 8. The papercontaining the picture, 14, is pasted on this flat surface 12 withitsedges just meeting the curved. surface 13. Looked at from the front, thelight will be reflected from the picture immediately through the lensand dispersed angularly, so that the flat picture will appear as amedallion. At

the same time the portion of the lens over the fiat back 10 being curvedwill give that portion the appearance also of a medallion. This surfaceis ornamented as by pasting mother of pearl or metal paintthereon. Theeffect therefore is for the picture to appear as a medallion mountedupon an ornamental convex surface, which gives a very striking andpleasing effect.

In the form of Fig. 3 a glass plate may be made with parallel surfacesas at 15 and the flat surface for pasting the picture,

12 will be raised rather than depressed, v

which gives a heavy lens on the picture with some economy of the glass,and also makes the backingunder the part 15 appear as of differentcurvature from the curvature of the picture. In Fig. 4 is shown stillanother form in which the lens plate '9 has three flat surfaces on theback, separated by sharp corners so that the protecting cover pasted onsurface 10, and a common photo mount 17 on the surface 16, may be placedbehind the picture on the surface 12'. This gives the appearance fromthe front of two convex surfaces mounted on a third convex surface whichincreases the medal-. lion effect and also allows 'of more elaborate,ornamentation of the curved surrounding surfaces 13 and painting on anyof the surfaces, the edges separating the spaces for depositing paint soas to make its applica tion easy.

Of course the glass frame and mount may within the scope of the appendedclaims be of any design desired, and another form is shown in Figs. 5and 6. Also in Fig. 6 the lens 18 has an outwardly slanting and curvedsurface 19 on the back, and the surface for mounting the flat picture,20, is raised rather than depressed. This gives the effect of amedallion rising from the depression'in a hollow lens. The ornamentationsuch as suggested in Figs. 7 and 8 may be applied to any one of thesurfaces 13, 19, etc. so as to make an ornamental border to the pictureand the edge of the medallion."

' his is usually done by gluing material like front will appear as beinghighly polished.

The advantages of thesedevices will be readily apparent to thosefamiliar with the effect of refraction and reflection and the evidenteconomy involved in using the picture mount as a frame by making theappearance of the border distinctly different 'fromthe appearance of thelens over the picture, will also be apparent.

,Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is the following:

1. A combined picture glass and frame formed of a lens having a fiatback and an integral flat flange surrounding the back, the

center of the article being adapted for pastmg a picture thereon in flatcondition, and the surfaces of the flat flange and the picture spacebeing separated by sharp'edges whereby paint and ornamentation may beeasilyapplied and will appear through the lens. as embossedornamentation around the picture space forming a frame therefor.

2. A picture mount comprising an integral piece of glass having-a curvedfront surface to form a lens, an integral lateral flange, and a centralflat space for pasting p ctures, the surface of the back being div1ded by sharp edges to provide spaces for depositing paint or otherornamentation, whereby the flange will appear as an ornamented framewith a picture pasted in the middle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence ofthe two subscribed witnesses.

HARRISON D. STERRICK. In presence of CHAS. S. LEPLEY, F. W. H. CLAY.

